Right‑sizing Azure Savings Plans, one hour at a time (opens in new tab)

Most of us have, at some point, sized a commitment the same way we order food for a team offsite: estimate, round up, and hope nobody complains. It works for pizza. It is a less robust strategy for a three‑year Savings Plan. Azure Cost Management already produces commitment recommendations for you, and they are a great starting point. But the headline dollar figure on the portal hides the most useful signal a FinOps team can get its hands on: the hourly Pay‑As‑You‑Go (PAYG) usage that the rec...